I was 8 years old when my Aunt Wendy, who lived in Tennessee, gave me a porcelain joker doll that had what looked like a red tear drop. We were getting ready for bed, and since we were staying with them, we didn't have any where to put it. My mom set it on the shelf in the front room. While my mom a...

Mischief night used to be one of my favorite nights of the year. It's the night before Halloween, and it's the night when people go out and cause mischief (i.e.: TPing, tagging, or just plain or sneaking out for a bit). Me and my friends never really did anything because we were too chicken (as alwa...

One night, when I was still in Jr High I had a really bad fever. I had hot and cold flashes all night and I couldn't sleep (which I really needed because my parents wouldn't let me stay home unless I was dying).
It was summer at the time and the heat way more intense than the cold flashes, so I w...

I'm new to this site and have been really enjoying (and dreading) the stories I have been reading so I wanted to share my experiences with you guys. My name is Joe. I'm 24 years old living in eastern Pennsylvania. When my younger brother and I were kids (he is 3 years younger than me) we knew our ho...

I've combined these two stories into one because they both involved my brother and happened one right after the other.
The Dark Entity -
Seventeen years ago, my parents had purchased our very first house. While our house was in escrow, we continued to live in our small rented mobile home, loca...

This story actually takes place in several places. The first being in California. I'll begin there.
Back when I was about seven, my family was fortunate enough to get their hands on a pure bred Siamese kitten. A lovely Seal Point that loved the entire family. My brother was the one to name him. ...

I have always been what you would call "sensitive" to things that most people have no awareness of. My mom would tell me that when I was young, I would be talking to someone in my room, or she would walk past and could hear me giggling as if playing with someone else. I don't recall much of that, bu...

It has been a while since the last time my family had had any ghostly things going on. Don't get me wrong we would have little things happen. Mostly just little things like, items would get moved that none of us had done it or odd things would show up in family pictures.
My oldest sister got out...

It happened 4 years ago. My daughter just turned 2. We moved into an apartment. As soon we moved in my daughter just refused to even play in her room. The only time she would even go in there is if I went with her. So she had to stay in my room.
We were the only 2 that lived there. I would leave ...

I was sitting in the front room reading a book, listening to my portable cd player, when I heard one of the kitchen chairs scoot out and hit the washer. Thinking it was my mom, I got up walked into the kitchen, but no one was there. Noticing the bolt on the door was still locked, I pushed the chair ...

There are two huge white lion statues on either side of the gate to an estate just next to the Cats restaurant in Los Gatos on Highway 17. The gate is an exquisite, wrought iron handmade masterpiece (now replaced with a standard gate) that begs to be opened. A quiet shaded road leading off into the ...

I have posted before about the "farmer" I often saw in my backyard. I just thought I'd mention a few more things that took place while growing up.
1. Most fathers have their "favorite chair." My dad was no exception. It was this old chair from the 70's. It rocked back and forth. It also swiveled....

This has to be one of my earliest ghost memories, yet, it was evidently not my first. It was 1958 and I was seven years old.
I woke in the middle of the night, not knowing exactly why, but thought I had heard the same siren sound as from the movie we had recently watched, The Diary of Anne Frank....

The last few days I have been hearing the weirdest, small noises in and about one kitchen area. Not prone to hysterics, I observe the dogs are not listening or disturbed, cats are not interested, and all pet rats are accounted for in their comfy condo. A large metal tin sounds like it has a mouse it...

Two months ago, we made arrangements to join the Slumber Party at Preston Castle, a closed prison for boys from the late 1800's in a state of severe disrepair. Finally, the full moon weekend came and we were there.
Fourteen of us, mostly strangers, set up our beds in the first two rooms and migrate...

This was originally going to be my first post, but I decided do post my first experience last week (In The Beginning). Here's what's going on with me most recently...
A quick description of my dwelling... Built in the early 1970's in the southwest Portland suburbs as an apartment, it became cond...

I am coming here with this story in the hopes of being able to receive answers and ideas about what to do. Several friends of mine and I have been trying to help another one of our friends that I shall call Van.
Van has been repeatedly attacked by a demon in their house for some time. We have tr...

My sister and I were staying the evening with my mom. She lived in one of those creepy old farm houses in the country. We had been there on several occasions and never had anything out of the ordinary happen.
I am a smoker and one night it was really cold and I didn't want to stand outside. We d...

I stopped using my old alarm clock when I got a better one for Christmas in 2006. Since then, the clock has been sitting dormant in the living room on top of the TV. It's only ever used as a regular clock now.
A few days ago, it went off at 10:45 in the morning. This is a clock that hasn't been t...

I'm new to this website, but I just wanted to share the story about the house I used to live in Covington Indiana. Well, when my family bought the house we knew it used to be an old train depot, but after the years went by they fixed it up as a two story house but the upstairs was made into an apart...

When I was little I had a dream about a silhouette walking around my backyard. I saw her sort of let's call it dying. I called her the "black lady" (I was little and I am NOT racist).
It is now about 8 years later. I was sleeping over at my friend's house. She lived right around the corner from ...

Since I was a child I have been visited by ghosts. The earliest one I can remember was when I was 7. We were living in Colorado and I shared a room with my sister. One night I saw a strange woman in my room, I remember a feeling of ill ease and I saw her carry a child out the window. It turns out th...

My mom and I moved into this new house July 9, 2008. My mom told me about 2 weeks ago she heard 2 distinctive knocks on our front door about 6AM. She thought it was me but then realized I was in bed. She listened but heard nothing more.
The odd thing is our screen door is very loud and can be he...

I don't live in Philadelphia anymore. In fact, I live in North Wales. And here's some news... I think my house is haunted by a young, playful boy.
When I first saw this boy, he was standing behind me while I brushed my hair in a mirror. He was dressed in white with black shoes. He had blond hair ...

When I was about six or seven, I never used to REALLY believe in ghosts. I mean, I believed in them, but to an extent. Now, after this encounter, I think I have a change of mind. By the way, I have only seen this guy ONCE.
I used to live on Drumore Drive in Philadelphia, but since my parents divo...

So if you read my last story (Unexplainable Events) you'd now all the weird things that happened at my old house, well I had breakfast with my dad last weekend and I got more stories. In the last story I said that my father thought he saw a man a couple times but I found out last weekend was there m...

About three blocks from my house was a government housing community with about one hundred apartments. Which made for a lot of kids of all ages in the neighborhood all the time. During the summer breaks and weekends a lot of us would get together and play baseball, football, or some other sport to e...

I was under the impresion that since I had not heard anything recently that maybe things had kind of gone back to normal. Little did I know that things were just getting started.
I was under the impression that since I had not heard anything recently that maybe things had kind of gone back to nor...

I was in St. Louis on a business trip installing some computers at our new building there and staying in this creepy hotel. I don't remember what one, but it was an older hotel and the name Raddison pops into my head. The place gave me the creeps from the moment I got there and I was just uneasy the...

This was originally going to be my second post, but I thought that maybe it would be best to share my very first (known) experience with the unknown before moving on with some of the additional stories I have to tell.
Back in 1981 I was eighteen, do the math. It was the year my father died. It we...

When younger, I was lucky enough to live, with my mom and two brothers, in a mobile home which sat on a piece of land near the outskirts of the small town I grew up in. The land was owned by my grandfather and used for his businesses.
Behind us were the usual small town neighborhoods, but in the ...

After our trip to Brookdale Lodge, I ran into an advertisement online about a spending a night in Preston Castle in Ione, a boys reformatory / prison of days past near Sacramento. Saturday night, August 16th was not only open, it was a full moon. Oh yeah. And my David, the original skeptic, wants to...

Where to start well I guess I should start at the beginning. To start off I come from a family of very special people. We are Native American. Some in a family think we have shaman in our family history which is what makes us different. Let me explain how we are different we can see and speak to spr...

This happened back in August 2006. My friend's name is Aya (a name she hates, so she goes by Kaze), and she was 11 and 8 months old at the time; I was 12 and 1 month old.
On this specific summer night, I was at a sleepover with my best friend, Kaze Takahara. We had eaten our dinners, and were wa...

I sleep pretty erratically at the moment. A recent tragedy has me at odds with the dream world, and I am about to withdrawl my subscription. I fall asleep with peaceful intentions, and usually end up jarring myself awake as pain rips through my body and I struggle to keep from crying out to alert th...

One night around 2:30 or 3:00 AM, my friend Beth and I snuck out of my house to go swinging at the elementary school a few blocks away from my house. While we were swinging I noticed something in the window. I didn't pay much attention to it because I was too into listening to my music and swinging....

This is sort of what happened to me. I think a ghost was in my room. I was in my room trying to sleep. I was facing my T.V. But not directly at it. I had my eyes closed when all of a sudden I saw a shadow run across the room. Since the T.V. Was on and through my eyelids, I could see just flashing wh...

I have recently (07/30/08) purchased a house for the very first time in my life, when I first saw it I fell in love, it is located on a side street to the Manhattan blvd. In Gretna, LA in New Orleans, cottage style in a great location.
Once in, the house is more a problem than I had bargained for...

I have had many encounters with spirits and I am making this story for me and my friends at my school. Well, my friend and I have suspected our school is haunted. I will tell some of the stories. I'll stop rambling on now and start.
I found this website one time and a few weeks later the haunting...

I'm not exactly sure what time it was when all this occurred. I had a strange dream where all my negative ideas manifested into a person and I had to try to rid my self of him. After that I woke up and saw a glowing white being that was at the foot of my bed. I tried to move but was completely paral...

As half of you know I am a curious teenager, which likes to study mysteries and etc. Well I am mostly looking for the paranormal everywhere I go, this time it looked for me when I least expected it.
It was a month ago when I stayed at my friend Kayla's. We were up watching TV that night, earlier ...

We lived in a very small town, you know, everybody knows everybody and all their business kind of place. This actually happened at the same house from my other post.
Well, one day my mom got a call from the post lady asking her if she would be at our house in a couple of days. My mom said of cour...

It was 2:30 A.M, and I had just gotten a bloody nose. Unfortunately, it lasted for about thirty minutes, so I was pressing tissues on my nose canal until 3:00. I was a bit alarmed about the time, because I knew that it was the hour that ghosts were the most active, but I decided to not worry about i...

I thought I would give a little blurb about how I became interested in the paranormal. In other words, my ghost story. In 1998 Me, my wife, son and daughter (no infant yet), bought a small old house in a town with about 50, 000 residence. It was a cute little house that we got cheap. We were new to ...

A few months before I fell down, our barn door would open and slam shut even when there was no wind blowing. I got tired one night hearing it slam so went out and put a lock on the door. Satisfied the barn door was fine gone back into the house. This barn sits to the South of my home in the country....

About a year ago, my mother rented a run down duplex. It was a complete eyesore but we were on a budget. My parents are divorced and, at the time, I spent every weekend with my mother.
This place always gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. At all times in this house, I felt like I was ...

This occurrence happened in the mid 90's. At that time I was working security at a gambling establishment. One of my duties was to make sure everything was shut down and locked up after the last customer left.
On this night I was walking through the upper level and had just turned off the manager...

This is short but at least it's real. It was 2:54am and my best friend Megan and I wanted to go on a little walk cause we have been doing it every time she spent the night.
We got dressed out of our pajamas and tried to sneak downstairs so we wouldn't wake anyone. When we got outside through the...

My dad was gone every other week for his job. So, when he wasn't there I would always sleep in the bed with my mom. Well, one night when I was five years old I woke up to find the ceiling right in front of my face. When I reached for the ceiling, I touched it with my finger and then fell straight do...

During my experiences in the house, whispers and voices were a big part of the haunting. Hearing voices outside my bedroom door became a common thing each night I was there. Sometimes it sounded like there were two or three outside my door having a conversation and trying not to wake me up. I didn't...

Last Sunday I had stuff happen for three nights in a row. Sunday started with voices of three people in my room arguing-two male voices and a female. I sleep with my TV on and my I-pod on to drown out the silence.
My i-pod turns off when I'm done listening to a play list and my TV was on mute so...

So as many of you know, I was having many occurrences in my house and I was trying to find an answer as to what was going on. Well, after I became a member on the site and posted my happenings. I got an email from another member but I will not say the name. They contacted me to tell me that they wer...

This all started when I was 7. My friend Andrea came to my house in the summer because she had no one to take care of her so my grandma and I babysat her.
My brother usually watched TV in the living room with Andrea. I was in summer school so I had to do some homework and I was always in my room...

When I was 16 years old, I attended Cincinnati Job Corps, (in of course Cincinnati Ohio) from the years 2002- 2003. Now let me explain this to you, this building that all of the students, including myself resided had a lot of history. The Underground Railroad ran under it, nuns lived there, it was a...

One evening last year, I was sitting at my desk in my room working on a drawing for one of my classes when I felt someone tugging my hair. It wasn't like someone was pulling my hair to hurt me, but just a light playful tug. I chuckled and for whatever reason felt a happy/bubbly feeling in my stomach...

I have to admit that I have always been a huge fan of the supernatural and watch my favorite TV show "TAPPS" AKA Ghost Hunters yet have never had my own experience until yesterday. First off I never truly believed in ghosts no matter how bad I wanted to.
I always thought that if I can't hear or s...

My best friend Payton visited for the summer and spent about a month at my house. She left today, and since I have nothing else to do and since I've been meaning to get around to it I decided I'd post a few stories tonight.
This story happened a few weeks ago when we were both trying to fall asl...

For starters, I'm now twenty one years old but my story was from three years back; when I was 18. I told small details from it to a few others but have always held back the whole story, fearing that it would never be believed. I've always had a firm belief in my religion (I'm a follower of Hinduism)...

HPI Chronicles: The Many Ghosts of Sonoma
By Paul Dale Roberts, HPI Ghostwriter
The date is August 9, 2008, Saturday and I am getting prepared for a big scouting mission in Sonoma. But, before I prepare for this scouting mission, I also have to say prayers for a good friend of mine. His name...

A few days ago (Today being Monday, the 11th, and that day being Thursday, the 8th), I had a rather queer run-in with something that I just can't seem to make sense of.
Thus, I'm hoping you helpful people might be able to provide me with some information or advice.
First, I'd like to give you...

It was 1990 and I was living in a trailer. My parents were divorced and I was in the room where I could watch TV and do my homework at the same time. I was 17 that the time.
It was evening after supper. I was feeling something was not right but couldn't put my finger on what. I was feeling somet...

I have read a few stories on here about different people and their experiences with Ouija boards; I have also read the comments about these experiences and how many people feel about them. With that being said, I have decided to tell about my only experience with an Ouija board.
It was 1995 and I...

I definitely got my fill of the paranormal over the weekend. First, there was the incident in my family involving my Aunt Alicia (see "Aunt Alicia's Couch Buddy"). This set the stage for other members of the family to divulge their own personal paranormal encounters to me as they had come to visit f...

I have been living in my apartment now for about a year now. It will be a year 9/15/08.) The apartment has a lot of history! I still have some more research to do. My apartment sits on top of an electronics workshop, the business repairs stereos, speakers, electric pianos etc. Before it was an apart...

So a lot of people have been asking when I will be putting up the experience with my Nana. So here they are.
My mom was cleaning the house and she decided to freshen up my Nana's room (we still call it that even though she passed away) so she got the Frabreez but then remembered she didn't like i...

This past weekend, as my mother and I were sitting down for breakfast together, my grandmother called to tell us that my Aunt Alicia was sick. Apparently, the entity in her house (in Lamont, CA) had frightened her so severely that it caused her to fall ill. I could only hear my mother's side of the ...

This is my first post, hope you like it. Sorry if it's not that great, I'm not a good storyteller.
This takes place in a house I use to live in. The house itself is over a hundred years old and as far as I know nothing bad has happened there. It had belonged to my Grandma before she died and it w...

As I said in the last installment, I quit the store in October of last year. The new owners and I didn't see eye to eye on some things and I left in a tiff. After a six month cool down and a few casual conversations, I returned to work there in roughly March of this year. So far I haven't had anymor...

While Abigail is by far the most frequent and personal favorite of my unseen visitors, I do have two more, three if you count the cat. The one we call The Old Woman pretty much stays in the kitchen/living room and concerns herself with the condition of the house. The other one we call The Ancient On...

We had a good one for Halloween, but maybe it was coincidence. Not.
I live with a widower who lost his beloved wife, Chris, of twenty years to cancer. She started an extensive garden where we spend most of our time. Quite a legacy. He does not believe in any after life, end of subject. I have gen...

Of all the haunted places in my world, the Winchester Mystery House has to be my favorite. I was fortunate to have been raised in San Jose, and had toured the house over thirty times by the time I left the valley in 1988.
There is one room that has always been very active. The top floor in that ...

We've been living in my new house for 3 months, maybe more. I have noticed some really weird things lately. The first month we have lived here it's been okay. I always felt like something was watching me but I shrugged it of like it was nothing, but in the second month I noticed that something was w...

I was invited to a weekend at Brookdale Lodge, Santa Cruz Mountains with Verify Broadcasting and Pacific Paranormal. You bet! I was only tenish when my father took us and I played with that little girl up in the balcony overlooking the dining room. Yeah, that little girl.
To walk back into that ...

I recently got married in June of this year. My husband and I went on our honeymoon and once we got back, off to work we both went. Tired and exhausted after a hard day work, I got home, took a shower and headed for bed.
I heard footsteps and assumed my husband had come home from work. Thinking ...

I lived in Lomita, California from 2003-2005. The day we moved in was a very happy day for my family and me because the neighborhood is beautiful, the people were nice. Hence it's called the "friendly city".
My mother got first dibs on picking her room, then I did and my brother got the third roo...

For some background knowledge, my father built our house a year or two before my experience. I was either 7 or 8, don't remember exactly. At my age, I hadn't had any family die to even begin to comprehend or think about the after life.
Looking back, I think it's interesting that the house was new...

A couple of years back when I lived with my parents I used to hear knocking every-so-often in my room. I would be in there with the door closed doing whatever at the time. This would always happen when I was on my bed and would always sound like it was coming from the exact same spot. It was about 3...

The following video is yet another captured EVP for your review. We will once again play the "What is it saying game"... The first thing that I am requesting is to let me know what you think it says. I put this on twice. The first one is unfiltered, straight off of the recorder. The second version t...

This is my second story on this web site. To be honest, I'm not even completely sure if what I'm about to type was truly a paranormal experience, but I have my theory. My husband and I have been living in the same apartment complex for about two years now. Nothing paranormal has happened. I don't th...

I remember the few first years of moving into my new home with my mom and my brother (the home in "Modern Home Haunting"), I always experienced terrifying experiences that no one seemed to believe that were happening. Me and my family aren't a religious type, but I am certainly a believer of another...

It was early morning in Northern Pennsylvania. I was at a log cabin in the woods about three miles in from the closest road. I have been to this cabin many times over a period of years. I always had a feeling I couldn't describe when there, but didn't give it too much thought. I figured it was the s...

This is the second time I have had an experience like the one I am about to tell. Strange things seem to happen around or close to my birthday. Yesterday, August 4th was my birthday so it is no surprise to me that I had this experience this morning.
I awoke early this morning at around 6:30am and...

My name is Baylee, I'm 15 years old. This is my story.
I was at my Grandparents house in Oklahoma and my family and I were all going out to eat. We were all loaded up in the car expect for my grandpa, so I ran back into the house to get him. When I got into the living room, I called down the hal...

One late evening, not so long ago, my son and I were watching a Ghost Hunters marathon on TV. Needless to say, we were already spooked, but we didn't dare turn to another channel, as this episode was one of the better ones. We were cuddled together on the couch, relaxing in our pajamas. Other than t...

I would like to start off by saying I have been visiting this site for awhile now but have held off on submitting my stories because of the fear I still feel in some parts of the house I used to live in, which my parents still live in.
I am a 35 year old mother of 3 great kids between the ages of...

My mother, sister and I recently went on a weekend trip to a private lake front cabin. For the most part it was a great trip. Although I didn't get much sleep at night. Both nights of our stay we heard several noises such as knocking, creaking, and footsteps in the loft and on the deck. I had a very...

Many of you know that my partner has gone through a great deal very recently. We had thought, at one point that she would leave us, but she is still going strong and thanks The Great Spirit daily, while singing in the day.
Up wards twenty years ago we met while working in a working farm market. I...

My name is Ian and the story I'm about to tell you was very weird and scary to experience. This happened when I was about 11 years old. My family and I have lived in my house since I was 3 years old and it's almost a 200 year old house.
Growing up my brother Tommy was a big fan of death metal. I ...

When I was about 3, my grandmother lived in this big white house. I lived with her and my mother. My mother and I shared a room and my grandmother had her own. One night my grandmother heard a voice say "Can you hear me now?" so she got scared and went downstairs to the couch. The same night a littl...

This happened 2 days ago. I was setting up some blankets in the living room so I could watch a movie (I didn't feel like watching it in my room) and my mom was in her room about to go to bed I think. I grabbed my stuffed bunny, Bun-bun, and set him down on the little bed I'd made for myself in front...

This story happened when my son was about 3 and a half and I was pregnant with my daughter. It was 1995, and my son would spend his mornings watching the Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon. He was very lonely; being home schooled, and did not have any friends that were his age whom he could play with.
...

I've given you one experience that has to due with Victoria. That was the whole deal with the roof top voice and etc. She has gradually gotten obsessive about ghosts and spirits as we've gotten older.
Needless to say the roof top encounter did nothing for her curiosity.
While I was talking to h...

When I was little (around five or six) I had my first encounter with the paranormal. The incident is a little foggy in my mind since it happened over a decade ago, but I'll do my best to recall.
I remember waking up some time in the night and I wasn't able to move; except for my eyes. I was lying...

This is another update on Bart... I think he's brought another spirit to where I live. I just get the feeling that there's more out there than just Bart. As you know Bart was a very mean spirit when I moved in, but he (or she) has done a complete turn around. But recently I've been experiencing thin...

I'm kind of embarrassed by my experiences. Well this has happened multiple times. I'm new to this but I've read stories and similar things have happened to me. I'll be sitting on my bed in the dark but not too dark and I'll feel something strange, hard to explain.
Next thing you know, there woul...

I'm not sure were to start... I moved in this house about 4 years ago, I was about 11, and from the first time I stepped into the house, it felt like this was the house my mom was going to buy.
It's an okay sized house, my room is the attic. Good sized room, closet, big window, ceiling is curved ...

When we first moved into the home I currently live in, my friend had to leave right afterward to go out of town for her job. I had never lived in a detached home before and never in one so far away from other people.
The house was the first one completed on this block of the subdivision and there ...

This story actually takes place before my last one. This story is what really started me in realizing that the ghost in my woods can be rather hostile.
Okay, I used to have a small camcorder. It could take pictures in negative art. On previous ghost hunts with my friend, Kevin, he had a camera th...

In 1997 I had just moved in to a new apartment with my two week old baby girl. I was going through a rough time, a couple of months before I had separated from my husband, we had been married 9 months and I was 7 months pregnant.
I had had a c-section and it was pretty hard for me to move around...

I'd like to share this story becuase I haven't had anything like this happen to me before. It's a change from what my exsperiences have been. The other day I was home alone, well my brother was there but he was that the neighbors house skating so I guess I was alone, doing the dishes when I heard th...

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